Tuesday, 7 July 2015

today went to take a look at the HMS Warrior and HMS Victory together with Mighty Jingles and Ed Francis as an birthday activity (Ed and I share same birthday day). The weather was lovely and was an enriching experience, specially when I had 2 guides pointing every detail of the ships!
We also took the chance to visit an antique shop that was crammed with militaria (felt like a museum that if you happen to have a couple hundred to a thousand pounds laying around in your pocket, just buy what you want take it back home), saw a couple Lugers, a Panzerschreck and even a Sidewinder missile among other British, French and even Japanese items. The creepy part was some SS uniforms (and randoms) that were being sold. I had seen some before but always in museums and always at a certain distance but these were right in front of me, separated only by a thin glass and obtainable.
In a positive note, they had toys, very old ones and Ed pointed out a couple Star Trek toys which I will want to get my hands on! Slowly decorating my woman cave!

I took a couple photos for you, some of them may not be the best as this one completely forgot her memory card and couldn't take photos, used a phone instead:

here's a picture of the layout of the upcoming map called Smolensk that will appear soon on the supertest. We don't know much about it yet but it seems to be a city/mixed type map. It is not clear what the numbers mean.

apparently the M56 video with Chieftain was supposed to have a rather funny line. Chieftain:

I had actually said something like "You will probably never need to know
how to operate a museum piece, though I do wonder if the T-34s we've
seen used in Ukraine recently might have been started by using our
videos as a reference". The Minsk guys flat refused to allow it, for
fear of upsetting someone.

- new TXAA anti-aliasing making things too blurry? Storm: "We noticed. It's one of the features of the algorhitm. We will slowly work on that so it isn't that noticable."
- there will be third test round of 9.9 test
- apparently there is "an exploit with dll injection" in the game. As soon as the question appeared in the thread, Storm immediately closed it saying it's "off-topic".
- Storm doesn't know exactly when the FV4202 mission will come
- Q: "I wanted to ask... about the Japanese tanks, there are rumors that the Japanese had short and black... gun barrels, not like the Russian ones. Is it true?" A: (Knopka, Blitz community manager): "I'd say that each tank has its own gun. So various groups don't have any particular guns. This is not specific to the Japanese branch."